weather

[seldomseen]

We have had flooded fields since 2004 and I just dread it again. Love it when its dry.

Get a half section of canola up and looking great then 4" of rain and it all turns a purple color and gives up growing and ends up yielding 15-20. Or a half section of wheat that looks good until the rain comes and then it all turns yellow. Then its time to spray it and you think " Do I go in and make 6-8 inch ruts all the way down and back" Its not the nice looking field you thought you had.
Give me a drought any day!

[farmaholic]

2-21/2 inches in our 6 gauges in 3 days - so thankful. After the 80’s I’ve learned to “love a stormy night”.
We’ve been dry here for 3 years. Really dry starts for three years and sparse rain the rest of the summer, but someone said global warming will turn us into the tropics. Hot and wet, goodbye lentils hello pineapples.

That's not that much if that's the total of all six gauges!

Just kidding, I know what you mean.

The land in the Tropical Slum of the Ghetto is taking on the water quite well. There will be seeded pot holes that will be lost and small areas in the fields seeded through the first time over will be lost as well.......very small price to pay for what we received.

Still very "thankful" grassy

[farmaholic]

This looks ominus for us.

[Guest]

anyone else notice how far off the green weatherman is ?

[furrowtickler]

anyone else notice how far off the green weatherman is ?

Yup , big time .

[biglentil]

Ok over 3" in my rain guage in past 48hrs, calling for another 3" by tomorrow at 7pm. I would call 6" in 72 hours a drought buster.

Clif High's web bot report this winter claimed this area will be referred to as an inland sea this summer. Anyone have any rice seed and an air boat for sale? Lentils are in trouble.

[Sheepwheat]

Ok over 3" in my rain guage in past 48hrs, calling for another 3" by tomorrow at 7pm. I would call 6" in 72 hours a drought buster.

Clif High's web bot report this winter claimed this area will be referred to as an inland sea this summer. Anyone have any rice seed and an air boat for sale? Lentils are in trouble.

Now all you need is for it to keep raining the rest of summer. Then have it happen for ten or twelve summers in a row, and you will come to detest rain. 😉

[farmaholic]

4.23 inches in the last ten days. Unreal. There's people out there who got more, or more in fewer days.

[farmaholic]

4.23 inches over a square quarter section of land is 18,378,020 US gallons.....where did it all go? That just shows how parched the ground was around here.

Nature is an amazing beast....its hard to fathom the amount of water that fell from the sky in this area over the last while.

[fjlip]

1.7 inches and still drizzle, that is on top of the 1" Wednesday T-storms/floods. Like sheepwheat says, not again!
STUCK WEATHER, too much too fast, just like 2010, better STOP this year!
A dream to seed, now SFA but weeds in drown outs we were so happy to finally plant. Spraying? better stay dry...or cry